Sentences with phrase «level of aggregation»

At every level of aggregation we lose insight into what is actually going on with students, so rather than being valid and actionable, a combined subgroup seems to blur what the data means.

In striking the necessary balance, there is no avoiding a level of aggregation above the school and classroom level, because the impact of most education interventions is small relative to the variation in student achievement at any point in time.

We need new organizational structures such as the efficacy networks to provide some level of aggregation, while preserving the local context.

Since the benefits of large - scale investments in human talent accrue powerfully to society as a whole, and are not necessarily visible to individual parents, students, local or state officials, it is important for the national government to keep policy focused on this level of aggregation.

Making education uniform at too high of a level of aggregation ignores the diversity of needs of our children as well as the diversity of opinion about how best to serve those needs.

Also, while I understand the rationale for not offering a single summative score for a school, I think that some level of aggregation would improve on what's available now.

We asked about teacher salaries at the level of the state, rather than the specific district, because that is the lowest level of aggregation for which information on actual salaries is readily available nationwide.

Unfortunately, I haven't be able to uncover this for civil small arms ownership at any level of aggregation.

There are significant unresolved issues in all studies - about the adequacy of controls for family background, the possibility of differential bias at different levels of aggregation, and the use of weak measures of achievement and spending.

Perhaps both we and the CRP authors agree that we can not infer anything from the comparisons made at such high levels of aggregation.

This type of data is needed to accurately describe changes in diversity as students move between sectors because there is significant variation in student demographics at the school level that is often obscured when examining the issue at higher levels of aggregation (e.g. comparing charters as a group to surrounding school district or metropolitan area) and can complicate the drawing of valid inferences about the relationship between public school choice and racial sorting.

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As more examples of useful protein aggregation are identified, it should become clear how aggregates are regulated so that they do not reach toxic levels associated with diseases.

As a model of IAPP aggregation, we used Tg mice overexpressing hIAPP at four - to fivefold levels of endogenous mouse IAPP (Janson et al., 1996).

With his Pioneer Award, Ismagilov will develop droplet - based microfluidic technologies for quantitative studies of protein aggregation diseases and aging at the molecular level and in entire organisms.

We estimated familial aggregation of CVD mortality for twins offering the maximum level of risk due to genetic and other familial factors.

Glycation is a factor of glucose concentration exposure and time, with more AGEs forming upon longer exposure to higher concentrations of glucose.33 It follows that in a body that is hyperinsulinemic, and a brain that is insulin - resistant, the peripheral hyperinsulinism will inhibit the clearance of soluble Aβ by IDE, thereby causing it to remain in the extracellular space for an extended amount of time, and the functional «hyperglycemia» in the brain will provide an elevated level of glucose — the perfect storm for glycation of Aβ and its aggregation into insoluble plaques.

-- Several studies have shown that stress (due to elevated adrenaline levels) increases the risk of platelet aggregation.

With real - time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, teachers have instant insight into levels of understanding so they can use class time more wisely and help their students grow.

The user can choose the level of regional aggregation.

Outputs may be viewed for any of these aggregation levels, in graphs,.

It assumes that the level of distributive justice within a society is a function of the wellbeings of individuals, which means it can be reflected in the aggregation of wellbeing.

In the simplest case, the total social benefit from level x of good X is simply a sum across individuals of the individual benefits that result from a level x of good X. (I'm glossing over some very interesting issues here, especially interpersonal comparability of benefit, and whether additivity is the right aggregation rule, but that's life in a vanilla utilitarian world.)

Qualcomm's X16 modem brings 4x carrier aggregation with a total bandwidth of up to 80 MHz and gigabit - level peak theoretical speeds, while the Intel XMM 7480 offers a peak theoretical speed of 600Mb / s and 4x carrier aggregation with two channels limited to 10 MHz for overall bandwidth of 60 MHz.

As the entry - level model of our MediaTek LTE Cat - 6 portfolio, the MT6738 pairs a power - effiecient 64 - bit quad - core processor with MediaTek's new - generation modem technologies that include worldwide 4G spectrum and enables Carrier Aggregation.

This article focuses on the MDI development and validation, and not on school - or neighborhood - level aggregation of data, neighborhood - level linkage to socio - economic status data, or longitudinal, child - level linkage to data on earlier or later education or health outcomes.